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H. a. LEES a UBHOLSTBRY TRIMMING AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME. No. 317,151. Patented May 5, 1885.

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f UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE. 1

HENRY C. LEES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL B. SOHRAGK AND GEORGE H. SHERWOOD, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

UPHOLSTERY-TRIMMING AND METHOD-F MAKlNG THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,151, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed January 14, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY 0. Lines, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented 5 certain Improvements in Upholstery Trimmings, and in the Method of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of that class of upholstery-trimmings in which figuring cords or strands are tied to backing threads or warps stretched on a frame, some or all of these figuring-strands being afterward cut or partially out between the points at which they are tied, and the trimming being subjected to a fulling operation, so as to produce raised tufts or balls.

My improvement has for one of its objects the production of a central row or rows of balls or tufts more perfectly formed and more securely bound than usual, a further object, being to produce a strip which can be folded and used as an edge-trimming for curtains, lambrequins, 8w.

The improvement consists in the use of two sets of warps or backing-threads, instead of but one set, as usual, each set of warps having secured to it strands or cords forforming the hal f;;cuts, ,bo rde s, or other like ornamentation of one side of the strip, and the threads or strands for forming the central row or rows of balls being securedto both sets of warps, all as fully set forth hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a strip of trimming made in accordance with my invention; Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, diagrams illustrating the method of making the same; Fig. 6, a perspective view of another strip of trimming, also made in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 7 adiagram illustrating the ordinary method of making upholstery-trimmings of the class to which my invention relates.

The piece of trimming shown in Fig. 1 has a this character are usuallyanade on a frame having opposite rows of pegs, g, on which are stretched the transverse warps or backingthreads lathreads or strands m mandcords d being then carried longitudinally across, the frame and backing-threadsfias shown in Fig. 7, and secured to the latter at the crossings by means of tying-threads n, the strandsbeing afterward cut or partiallycut between the warps 6o h, so as to form balls and tufts, and the portions of the warps which pass around the pegs 9 outside of the cords a forming the edge-loops f.

In carrying out my invention I use a frame with a central bar and threerows of pins, g, as shown in-Fig. 2, and I employ ty -sets Io war s h h, each set extending from e'o e wrists of pins g'to the central row. The cords d and the strands m for the half-cuts b are carried longitudinally across the frame 0 back of the warps h h, and are tied thereto at the crossings, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Strandsm for the balls (1 are also carried acrpss the frame bacEEf one set of warps n, as shown, but are not secured to said war s. When th cordmfid stia nds m or e half-cuts have-m been tied, the warps h are removed from their pins and turned over onto the opposite half of the framefand arethen applied to the same pins which carry the warps h, the two sets of warps now overlying each other. Another row of strands, m, is now stretched across the frame, these strands being above the warps l,

and over the lower row of strands m, and both of these sets of strands are then bound to the doubled warps by a tying-cord, n, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the strands m and m being then out between the tying points, as usual, to

form the balls or tufts. l A number of adjacent warps, h h, are drawn together by the tyingo cord at, soas to converge, as shown in Figs. 1

and 4, and thus form a core for the central ball,

which is thereby firmly secured to the backing.

By doubling the warps and uniting the two sets of strands m thereto I am enabled to form a ball presenting afull rounded appearance,

the strip of trimming produced being such that it can be used flat, as shown in Fig. 1, for

a curtain-band or like purpose, or can be folded and used as an edgetrimming for curzoo tains, lambrequins, &c. In the latter case it may be advisable to have two or more rows of balls, as shown in Fig. 6, two or more rows of strands, an, being used in this case, instead of one row only, as in making a single ball, and each row ofstrands being bound to the doubled 5 warps by tying-cords n.

I claim as my invention 1. Themode herein-described of making upholstery-trimmings, said mode consisting in applying to rows of pins g two sets of warps or backing-threads, h h, tying to each set of warps the strands or cords m, doubling one set of warps over the other, uniting to the doubled warps the strands m, for the formation of balls, and then cutting said strands m m, 15 as set forth.

2. Upholstery-trimming having opposite warps or backing-threads, h h, each carrying HENRY O. LEES.

Witnesses:

JOHN M. CLAYTON, HARRY SMITH. 

